Unternavigationspunkte

Unternavigationspunkte

Country Verifying Certificate Authority - electronic passport

This website contains information about the root certificate authority CVCA-ePass operated by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

The CVCA-ePass represents the national trust anchor of the authorization PKI, that grants access to the passport function of official ID documents, by endowing the Document Verifier (DV) at the next hierarchical level with the necessary access rights.

Certificate Policy

The certificate policy of the CVCA-ePass (CVCA-ePass CP) describes the conditions under which the authorization certificates in the ePass-CVCA PKI are issued.

In general, organizational and technical requirements for the recognition, issue, management, usage, withdrawal and the renewal of certificates for the access to the ePass feature of official ID documents are defined in the certificate policy.